I wear these leg sleeves, as WELL as sweatpants for deadlift days

no, valgus knee force is a mechanism behind a LOT of chronic and acute medial knee rupture. ACL tears are either caused by a blow from behind the knee or lateral to the knee (whether it collapses medially or is hit laterally is irrelevant). look at nhl goalies, their MCL/ACL/meniscii complexes are all fucking slack as fuck because of constant valgus force and stretching. thats what youre promoting by letting your arches collapse if you dont have SUBSTANTIAL glute external rotation torque to compensate

Louie didn't follow westside protocols when he obtained the majority of his injuries.

Also, Bryce Lewis achieved a 400 lb bench and ~ 600 lb squat/dead through a strict westside template (before RTS).

I didn't say it wasnt working but what I am saying is there's a reason why you don't many lifters using these templates to reach the top in tested federations. Bryce has made tremendous progress since he started working with the Rts/dup approach. If you asked him he'd probably would recomend it over conjugate. Thats what he is using with TSA clients.

This post was edited by Aube on Jun 5 2016 11:48am

Of course.

that's the point. Dude who's DL'ing before you scrapes his shins. now he's got his skin and blood on the bar. Then you go grab the bar and do the same thing, only you just grinded his blood/skin cells in to your now open wound. This is how you get cellulitis. I'd rather get the fabric of my own clothes in my skin, than someone else's blood/skin cells

nice, i knew about the injurys being before westside.



Any recent podcasts by loui or seminars where people ask him the majority of powerlifters at his gym and he clearly states a million times over they have next to no raw lifters there, it is 95% geared lifters in terms of the powerlifters that train there. Just to verify IPF is all raw lifting right? belt wrist wraps and thats about it?

This post was edited by youngemerican009 on Jun 6 2016 07:32pm

Alright fair point.

IPF is both Raw (Belt/sleeves/wrist wraps) and single ply (Wraps/single ply suits/shirts). Biggest fed with strict judging and drug testing.

Right, Gabe's point was that it is suboptimal for raw natural lifters. Which I, generally, agree with.

I feel as though alot of people improperly do the box squat and/or dont do enough belt squats / reverse hyper (rare machine to find in a gym) and generally not enough sled work. he preaches all day long about the work capacity of these men and since increasing mine and adding GPP 6-12 hours after my main workout I have noticed a large difference in the performance of my hamstrings and triceps. Im not saying there arent raw lifers who can figure westside out but most of them have seen success in other methods and so stay the course of that. Nothing wrong with that though you do what works thats #1